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Introducing: The Curious History of Your Home - The Fridge
Introducing: The Curious History of Your Home - The Fridge
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Length:
30 minutes
Released:
Apr 8, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
A brand-new podcast from the Noiser network. Join domestic historian Ruth Goodman as she explores the remarkable, often epic, tales behind everyday objects.
This taster episode is all about the fridge.
In Ancient Persia, ingenious ice houses refrigerate food in one of the hottest deserts on earth. Bronze Age sites on Orkney reveal the secrets of early cold storage systems. A well-known sea captain becomes the face of a frozen food brand, with a little help from the Inuit of northern Canada. And cooling technology becomes a matter of life and death when US President James A. Garfield is shot…
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This taster episode is all about the fridge.
In Ancient Persia, ingenious ice houses refrigerate food in one of the hottest deserts on earth. Bronze Age sites on Orkney reveal the secrets of early cold storage systems. A well-known sea captain becomes the face of a frozen food brand, with a little help from the Inuit of northern Canada. And cooling technology becomes a matter of life and death when US President James A. Garfield is shot…
If you enjoy this taster episode, search ‘The Curious History of Your Home’ in your podcast app and hit follow to get new episodes every Tuesday.
Or follow this link: https://podfollow.com/the-curious-history-of-your-home
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Released:
Apr 8, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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